DBMS > Derby vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.tigergraph.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1997

1983

1980

2017

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

23c, September 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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